"I do languages, not complex number things"

In another life, like, several lives ago, I taught High School Math. (and Science - I had a weird role even before I was certified; but, I digress...) In my second year we had a new principal. I liked him from the first faculty meeting in the summer before First Day.

Sometime in the fall he was assigned the task to observe my class and writing my in-class evaluation. In fact, now that I think about it, this was a physics class because I'm pretty sure we used the Force Table that day to find the sum of three vectors.

Anywho, after class, Mr. Principal, who'd been a Spanish Teacher (and I'll be a really good one) met with me briefly on the way out, said some good things about my lesson, and said, "When I went to college, I couldn't decide between being a Spanish major and a Math major." I replied with something like, "Not too overlapping fields *chuckle*" and he said, "But they are. They're both basically rules for coding and decoding. Often even assigning meaning." That was a fantastic answer. Thus the stepson occupying both of those spaces makes a lot of sense to me now. And his Mama and Abuela who lives with us are both Salvadoran, and Grandma mostly only speaks Spanish. So he can speak what I assume is pretty solid Spanish already, albeit with a bit of a Gringo accent, so I'm told.

Another overlapping Code-Decode field that a lot of _us_ tend to be good at: Music.